Green BIC Brunch: How Green is Your Digital Content?
Thu, Mar 25
|Webinar
Hosted by BIC (UK): With expert speakers from Kortext, Pearson, and the University of Bristol. We will learn about the role digital products play in carbon reduction, and yet, how they in turn bring with them the new challenges of data centres and associated energy and natural resources consumption.
Time & Location
Mar 25, 2021, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. GMT
Webinar
About the Event
The March 2021 Green Brunch Session How Green is your Digital Content?
Introduction
The Green BIC Brunch series has been incredibly well received since its launch in June 2020. We have covered myriad topics across the full breadth of the physical book supply chain; paper, laminates, shipping, glues, single use plastics, the environmental impact of distribution and freight, waste reduction, printing technologies, inks foils…the list goes on. However, a major area as yet unexplored by our series is the environmental impact of the digital content supply chain.
With a focus on the academic/higher education sector, and with expert speakers from Kortext and Pearson, we will learn about the role digital products play in carbon reduction, and yet, how they in turn bring with them the new challenges of data centres and associated energy and natural resources consumption.
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